By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Blackhawks fired a longtime minor-league trainer in November after he was accused of sexual harassment. The Blackhawks say the alleged harassment by Rockford IceHogs trainer D.J. Jones occurred in 2014. The allegations were reported to the Blackhawks on Oct. 27. That was one day
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ROC, the U.S. and Japan are celebrated at the victory ceremony for figure skating’s team event at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Continue ReadingBy JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Just because he made an early exit from the Olympic mixed doubles curling tournament doesn’t mean the week has been a waste for Chris Plys. The American failed to qualify for the playoffs in the two-person, coed event in Beijing. But Plys is also one of
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Beat Feuz, 35, captured the first Olympic gold medal of his stellar career with an Olympic-record average speed over 68 mph.
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press Pfizer reports fourth-quarter results Tuesday. The Walt Disney Co. delivers its fiscal first-quarter results Wednesday. The Labor Department issues its latest consumer price index Thursday.
Continue ReadingCNN By Rhea Mogul, CNN Marc Lourdes, a former director of CNN Digital Worldwide for Asia-Pacific, died tragically in a motorcycle accident in Malaysia on Saturday. He was 40. Lourdes joined CNN’s Hong Kong newsroom in 2016 and soon became a valued leader and friend to colleagues across the region. He mentored many young journalists,
Continue ReadingBy JAKE SEINER AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Eileen Gu’s goal of three Olympic medals nearly blew away in the wind. The American-born freestyle skier who spurned Team USA for China ahead of the Beijing Games risked missing the finals in women’s big air when she lost a ski on her second run and
Continue ReadingCNN By Mick Krever and Melissa Bell, CNN It’s a frigid Friday in Ukraine’s Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, and dozens of journalists in fluorescent yellow vests are frantically elbowing each other as they vie for camera position in a town where no one has lived since 1986. Chernobyl has been abandoned since the world’s worst nuclear
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia will open its borders to all vaccinated tourists and business travelers from Feb. 21. The country had imposed some of the world’s toughest travel restrictions on its citizens and permanent residents in March 2020 to prevent them from bringing COVID-19 home. When the border restrictions
Continue ReadingBy JAVIER CÓRDOBA Associated Press SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — A former Costa Rican president took an early lead in national election in what had been a wide-open field of 25 candidates. José MarÃa Figueres, who was the country’s president from 1994 to 1998, had 27.3% of the vote in preliminary results released by
Continue ReadingBy DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Kamila Valieva walked almost tentatively through Capital Indoor Stadium, juggling her pink-cased cellphone, her ice skates with the fuzzy pink blade guards and the stuffed mascot of the Beijing Games, Bing Dwen Dwen. Then they all fell in a pile on the floor. She managed to
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The game between the ROC and Canada experienced a length delay.
Continue ReadingBy Joe Sutton, CNN New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara was arrested Sunday by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police and charged with “battery resulting in substantial bodily harm,” a news release from the department said. The investigation began when officers were dispatched to a hospital Saturday around 5:50 p.m. “where a person was reporting a
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER and LINDSEY BAHR Associated Press Spotify’s CEO says that while he condemned podcaster Joe Rogan’s use of racial slurs, he doesn’t believe that cutting ties with the popular personality is the answer. Daniel Ek wrote in the letter to employees Sunday that “canceling voices is a slippery slope.” Ek also says the
Continue ReadingBy DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Former suburban Chicago police Sgt. Drew Peterson is getting another chance to ask a judge to vacate his 2012 conviction in the murder of his third wife. A hearing Monday on the motion was delayed for three months by the same judge who sentenced Peterson to 38
Continue ReadingBy DON BABWIN Associated Press JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — A judge has delayed for three months a hearing on former suburban Chicago police officer Drew Peterson’s request to toss out his murder conviction in the killing of his third wife. Will County Judge Edward Burmila on Monday set the next hearing date for May 18.
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A lung specialist says George Floyd could have been saved if police officers had moved him into a position to breathe more easily. Dr. David Systrom testified Monday at the federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating Floyd’s
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Karen Chen was strong in the women’s free skate for the United States in the figure skating team event, finishing fourth to lock up the silver medal.
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In the team event women’s free skate, the Russian Olympic Committee’s Kamila Valieva became the first women’s figure skater to land not only one, but two, quadruple jumps at the Olympics.
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo had 28 points, Jrue Holiday added 27 and the Milwaukee Bucks pulled away in the second half to defeat the Los Angeles Clippers 137-113. The Bucks had three players with double doubles. Antetokounmpo pulled down 10 rebounds, Holidway had 13 assists and Bobby
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